The Russian Revolution
He was a strange, mystical monk who claimed that he could heal the czar's son, who suffered from hemophilia.
Who was Rasputin?
He was the leader of the Provisional Government in Russia.
Who was Aleksandr Kerensky?
He was the last emperor of China. ch. 19
Who was Puyi?
He was the President of the United States during World War I.
Who was Woodrow Wilson?
During World War I, American soldiers were given this nickname.
What is doughboys?
Vladimir Ilich Lenin was the leader of the Bolsheviks who took over the Russian government and named themselves this.
What is the Communist Party?
Nicholas II gave up his throne, and this began ruling in Russia.
What is the Provisional Government?
This is what happened to President Franciso Madero when Victorian Heurta took over Mexico. ch. 20
What is he was murdered?
Women who marched, protested, and spoke in public about their right to vote were called this.
What were suffragettes?
This British law allowed women over thirty the right to vote.
What was The Reform Act?
Russia joined this war in 1914.
What is World War I?
This is the problem that the Russian army faced when they entered World War I.
What is the Russian army was not well prepared? Almost two million Russian soldiers marched into battle with no weapons at all.
These two African countries remained free of African rule. ch. 11
What are Liberia and Ehiopia?
An end to fighting is called this.
This had to be changed in the United States so that women could vote.
This is why Lenin thought that peasants had the right to take over land owned by the wealthy.
What is because the wealthy had often earned their money by forcing the poor to work hard for very little reward?
This is how Lenin got Russia out of the war.
What is he signed a treaty with Germany?
They were the first British Inhabitants of Australia. ch.11
Who were prisoners who were sent to Australia instead of prison in Britain?
This is how World War I showed that women should be allowed to vote.
What is since women had done the men's jobs perfectly well during World War I, it seemed obvious that women should be allowed to vote?
This is how the new American troops changed the balance of the war.
What is the balanced tipped against the Central Powers (or gave the Allied Forces more power)?
This is how Lenin tackled Russian poverty and this was the problem with his idea.
What is he wanted to make sure the wealthy didn't own all the land while the poor had none? So the Communist Party decided that all of the land in the country would belong to the government, and the government would allow people to use the land equally. Instead of individual Russians building business, making money and perhaps forcing other Russians to work for little pay, the government would own and run most of the businesses. This new way of living, called communism, was supposed to make sure that the government, instead of a small group of powerful people, had control over Russia. But the government was controlled by a small group of people, Lenin and his followers.
This is why the Bolsheviks rename some of Russia's cities.
What is because they believed that Christianity was false and wrong, so they changed the names of the cities in Russia that were named after Christian saints?
These three countries fought in the Second Balkan War. ch. 18
What are Serbia, Bulgaria and Greece?
This is why the president though that the United States had to join World War I.
What is so that the democratic countries of Europe would not lose their right to elect their own leaders?
This is how American women helped during World War I.
What is they did the jobs that men left behind when they went off to war. They also joined the Navy and Marine Corps and served as nurses, clerks, telephone operators, electricians, and photographers?